Ukraine faces its most challenging winter as russia relentlessly strikes its energy system to plunge the nation into cold and darkness.
Since mid-October, russia's carried out five mass missile attacks that have damaged 50% of Ukraine's energy system and made long power outages a new reality for many Ukrainians.
And every missile strike is yet another uphill battle for DTEK.
"Every scenario is possible," Serhii Kovalenko, CEO of Yasno (DTEK Solutions), told the Kyiv Independent, not dismissing potentially prolonged mass blackouts across Ukraine in case of renewed russian attacks.
"No matter how you prepare, it is still very difficult to predict what's going to happen."
Despite that, Oleksandr Fomenko, the head of DTEK Grids, argued that the country's grid was large and solid enough to withstand the winter ahead.
The Kyiv Independent talked to Kovalenko and Fomenko about the work to repair the damaged infrastructure and what Ukraine should expect entering its coldest, darkest months.
Read more here - The Kyiv Independent.
DTEK Group is the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector, with 55,000 employees and over €12 billion of capital invested since 2005.
Our businesses generate electricity at wind, solar and thermal power plants; distribute and supply power to end consumers; extract natural gas and coal; trade energy resources on Ukrainian and foreign markets; and provide domestic and commercial energy services.
Over the last 20 years, DTEK has grown into a national energy leader and is today transforming into a pan-European clean energy business.
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, DTEK Group has restored power to millions of consumers across regions affected by hostilities.
DTEK Group is 100% owned by SCM Holdings. The ultimate beneficiary and sole shareholder is Rinat Akhmetov, a businessman and philanthropist.